What Does the Bible Say About Good Conversation?

Titus 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

To speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

James 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

James 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.

1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you;

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct. Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, ...

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct,

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Pray for us, for we are sure that we have a clear conscience, desiring to act honorably in all things.

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He must not be a recent convert, or he may become puffed up with conceit and fall into the condemnation of the devil.

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another. ...

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. Then the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. And the king said to them, “I had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.” Then the Chaldeans said to the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will show the interpretation.” The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, “The word from me is firm: if you do not make known to me the dream and its interpretation, you shall be torn limb from limb, and your houses shall be laid in ruins. ...

Ecclesiastes 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever keeps a command will know no evil thing, and the wise heart will know the proper time and the just way.

Psalm 38:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Those who render me evil for good accuse me because I follow after good.

Job 28:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to man, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”

2 Chronicles 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as the house of Ahab had done, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife. And he did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice,

27 Bible Verses about Good Conversation

Titus 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 38:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 28:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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27 Bible Verses about Good Conversation

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Titus 3:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Colossians 4:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

James 3:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

James 3:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 15:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 3:1-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Peter 1:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 13:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 4:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Timothy 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Daniel 2:1-49 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ecclesiastes 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 38:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 28:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

2 Chronicles 21:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 23:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes